He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.