Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.