Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. — Jonathan Swift. Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667–1745) Laws
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.