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

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

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

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

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