There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.