I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
That was excellently observedโ, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.