Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.