There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pe….

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it..

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided k….

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those wh….

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were….

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed..

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed..

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire….

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man..