[W]e are all guilty in some Measure of the same narrow way of Thinking ... when we fancy the Customs, Dresses, and Manners of othe...r Countries are ridiculous and extravagant, if they do not resemble those of our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and... wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm... at one end and a fool at the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does... but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best par...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But you think ... that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was cal...led into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threat'ning with deluge this devoted town.... To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,... Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.... While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »