Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

My hunger serves me instead of a clock.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.