Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.