I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

The little birds have God for their caterer.