There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. A man when he gets into a higher sphere, into other habits of life, can…

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend Are spent among the lasses, O.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and th…

Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.