The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.
How success changes the opinion of men!
wit is often its own worst enemy.
Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.