Love.—A little world within itself intimately connected with shovel and tongs.
Genteel Society.—A place where the rake is honoured and the moralist condemned.
Poetry.—A bottle of ink thrown over a sheet of foolscap.
Politician.—A fellow that culls all his knowledge from borrowed newspapers.
Patriot.—A man who has neither property nor reputation to lose.
Independence.—Owing fifty thousand dollars which you never intend to pay.
Lovely Woman.—An article manufactured by milliners.
"One wants but little here below,
And wants that little for a show."
FIRM FOUNDATION.—601.
The editor of the Albany Express says, the only reason why his dwelling was not blown away in a late storm was because there was a heavy mortgage on it.