Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
I row after health like a waterman.