It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.