Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.