A lie is an excuse guarded

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.