It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.