The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.