There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.
This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.