Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.