Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.