I have other fish to fry.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
There is no love lost between us.
Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.