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.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.