Miracle me no miracles.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.