Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

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 pertness of a coxcomb that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove.

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

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 who choose to have their money placed to account there.

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