What some people invent the rest enlarge.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

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

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.