There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. However, such instruments are necessary to politicians; and perhaps it may be with states as with clocks, which must have some dead weight hanging at them, to help and regulate the finer and more useful parts.—Pope.
Some divines make the same use of Fathers and Councils as our beaux do of their canes, not for support or defence, but mere ornament or show; and cover themselves with fine cob-web distinctions, as Homer’s gods did with a cloud.—Brown.
AFRICAN APHORISMS.
BY “UNCLE GEORGE.”
Sho’ me de man what am a-co’tin’ an ugly gal an’ she at de same time po’, an’ I will sho’ you a fit subjec’ fo’ de fool-killer.
When I sees de av’rage student a-contemplatin’ de law, I advises dat student to diet hisse’f on green simmons an’ draw his stummick up, ’case he ain’t agwine to need a very big one.
TRINITY COLLEGE,