"He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever."

"Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it."

"Now or never was the time."

"Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature."

"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had mind…"

"Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" — "Good G—!" cried my father, making an …"

"As we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing—only keep your temper."

"So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me t…"

"For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies."

"Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand."