Let Observation With Extensive View, Survey Mankind

To Understand The Works Of Celebrated Authors, To Comprehend Their Systems, And Retain Their Reasonings, Is A Task More Than Equal To Common Intellects; And He Is By No Means To Be Accounted Useless Or Idle, Who Has Stored His Mind With Acquired Knowledge, And Can Detail It Occasionally To Others Who Have Less Leisure Or Weaker Abilities.

Vulgar And Inactive Minds Confound Familiarity With Knowledge, And Conceive Themselves Informed Of The Whole Nature Of Things, When They Are Shown Their Form Or Told Their Use.

Pride Is Seldom Delicate; It Will Please Itself With Very Mean Advantages.

Oats. A Grain, Which In England Is Generally Given To Horses, But In Scotland Supports The People.

When Two Eglishmen Meet, Their First Talk Is Of The Weather.