All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

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

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.