Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.

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 were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

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.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.