It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

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

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.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Big-endians and small-endians.