Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

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

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.