Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.