It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
Big-endians and small-endians.
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.