Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.