Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.