Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.