A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

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

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.