It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

The very pink of perfection.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.