When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.