I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.