T is as cheap sitting as standing.
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.