"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"I have spent my time in writing, and have not been a man of action."

"It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed b…"

"The difference between a madman and a sane man is that the madman is in a minority."

"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, r…"