The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.