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

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.