A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.
Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people.