Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o’er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.
From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
The vices of some men are magnificent.
When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.
I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off’ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.
Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o’er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o’er sea or land we roam?
Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition ’s shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.