Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.