A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.