The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Not if I know myself at all.

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

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.