Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

Big-endians and small-endians.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.