A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations