He was a bold man that first ate an oyster

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

I mean you lie—under a mistake.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Lord M. What religion is he of? Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian.

surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid