Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.