The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

There is not room to swing a cat.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.