Truth needs not flowers of speech.

As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.

Education forms the common mind.

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?