"LACONICS," GUESSES AT TRUTH, &c.
(For the Mirror.)
It is the interest of an indolent man to be honest: for it requires considerable trouble and finesse, to deceive others successfully.
Money was a wise contrivance to place fools somewhat on a level with men of sense.
It will be observed, that people have generally the identical faults and vices they accuse others of; we may instance cowardice.
Wherever a proposition is self-evident, it is but weakening its strength to bring forward arguments in its support.
It is a melancholy reflection that a glass of wine will do more towards raising the spirits, than the finest composition ever penned.
It is a great mistake in physiognomists to take outward signs as evidences of feeling: the seat of real sensation is within.
Wherever art has travelled out of her proper sphere to ape nature, she has proved herself but a miserable mimic, even in her most approved efforts.