"I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul a…"

"The use of plants is all our life long of that universal importance and concern that we can neither live nor subsist …"

"In a calm sea every man is a pilot."

"He speaks Bear-garden. That is, such rude and uncivil, or sordid and dirty language, as the rabble that frequent thos…"

"Money and friendship bribe justice. Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent."

"Prate us but prade; it's money buys land Money begets money."

"If wishes were butter-cakes, beggars might bite. If wishes were thrushes, beggars would eat birds. If wishes would bi…"

"As full as a piper's bag; as a tick."

"I do not know who first emphasized the need for a clear understanding of the sense in which the term species is to be…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"