As leopard feels at home with leopard.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into read more

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.

This is a pretty flimflam.

This is a pretty flimflam.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Needle in a bottle of hay.

Needle in a bottle of hay.

Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]

Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]

To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.

To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.

Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]

Like Theon (i.e., a calumniating disposition).
[Lat., Dens Theonia.]

The coast was clear.

The coast was clear.