Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.