Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.