The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.