The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Bread is the staff of life.
I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.