Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.