The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!
There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.
