All History Was At First Oral.

The Noblest Prospect Which A Scotchman Ever Sees Is The High Road That Leads Him To England.

Instead Of Rating The Man By His Performances, We Rate Too Frequently The Performances By The Man.

Among The Numerous Stratagems By Which Pride Endeavors To Recommend Folly To Regard, There Is Scarcely One That Meets With Less Success Than Affectation, Or A Perpetual Disguise Of The Real Character By Fictitious Appearances.

A Coxcomb Is Ugly All Over With The Effectation Of A Fine Gentleman.

To Tell Of Disappointment And Misery, To Thicken The Darkness Of Futurity, And Perplex The Labyrinth Of Uncertainty, Has Been Always A Delicious Employment Of The Poets