The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

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

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.