There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.