The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

Still ending, and beginning still.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.