Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.