All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.