A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.