He Who Aspires To Be A Serious

How Can Children Credit The Assertions Of Parents, Which Their Own Eyes Show Them To Be False? Few Parents Act In Such A Manner As Much To Enforce Their Maxims By The Credit Of Their Lives

Too Much Nicety Of Detail Disgusts The Greatest Part Of Readers, And To Throw A Multitude Of Particulars Under General Heads, And Lay Down Rules Of Extensive Comprehension, Is To Common Understandings Of Little Use.

Our Supple Tribes Repress Their Patriot Throats, And Ask No Questions But The Price Of Votes.

All Intellectual Improvement Arises From Leisure.

Of A Thousand Shavers, Two Do Not Shave So Much Alike As Not To Be Distinguished.