Man is a tool-making animal

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.