"Self praise is no praise at all."

"If people are to live, why die? And are our carcasses worth raising? I hope, if mine is, I shall have a better pair of legs than I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind …"

"Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk."

"What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; present bliss is all we know."

"I am a very restless spirit, and I cannot find peace anywhere."