I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

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.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.