It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good re...
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, r...
May you live all the days of your life.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a...
What some invent the rest enlarge.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Usually speaking the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض
These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demons...
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.[]
He asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?" I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambiti...
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.