Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.