An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

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.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.