Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.