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.

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.

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

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