A Good Countenance Is A Letter Of

What Caricature Is In Painting, Burlesque Is In Writing; And In The Same Manner The Comic Writer And Painter Correlate To Each Other; As In The Former, The Painter Seems To Have The Advantage, So It Is In The Latter Infinitely On The Side Of The Writer. For The Monstrous Is Much Easier To Paint Than Describe, And The Ridiculous To Describe Than Paint.

As A Great Part Of The Uneasiness Of Matrimony Arises From Mere Trifles,, It Would Be Wise In Every Young Married Man To Enter Into An Agreement With His Wife, That In All Disputes Of This Kind The Party Who Was Most Convinced They Were Right Should Always Surrender The Victory. By Which Means Both Would Be More Forward To Give Up The Cause.

There Is Nothing So Useful To Man In General, Nor So Beneficial To Particular Societies And Individuals, As Trade. This Is That Alma Mater, At Whose Plentiful Breast All Mankind Are Nourished.

The Blackest Ink Of Fate Are Sure My Lot, And When Fate Writ My Name It Made A Blot.

Giving Comfort Under Affliction Requires That Penetration Into The Human Mind, Joined To That Experience Which Knows How To Soothe, How To Reason, And How To Ridicule; Taking The Utmost Care Never To Apply Those Arts Improperly.