Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.