"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."

"It is as impossible to please all men as to make a coat for the moon."

"The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words; for whoever is master of an art, and hath a proper fund of materials, and a suitable …"

"Those who are more thrifty may flay the carcass, the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentleman."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."