A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

(The pig) hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure - and for such a tomb might be content to die.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?