Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

One may like the love and despise the lover.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.