I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Observation is an old man's memory.