Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.