If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two.
CHAP. XV. [P. 92.]
Professes to be unintelligible to the Editor. The author might have in mind a saying of the Jews:
Thy secret is thy prisoner; if thou let it go, thou art a prisoner to it.
CHAP. XVI. [P. 96.]
Silly enough—First Love soon cured.
The cheese was soft, and the hook would not stick in it; a proof of the adage, that
Prosperity is very hard to bear.