Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
I row after health like a waterman.
In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.