I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
I heard the little bird say so.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It
Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his Breast.Imitate him if you dare,
As soon as I entered the house, my wife took me in her arms, and kissed me; at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour....
The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.
I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Possession they say is eleven points of the law.
They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship.
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's...