Observation is an old man's memory.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Every dog must have his day.
What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.