Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
Don't set your wit against a child.
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.