Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
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.