We cannot fail in following nature.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.