"Able was I ere I saw Elba."

"Madam, I'm Adam."

"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!"

"A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a ta…"

"Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel (Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel)"

"Si Nummi immunis."

"Sator arepo tenet opera rotas."

"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni."

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the son…"

"In a certain sense lexicography may be considered a superior discipline to lexicology, for results are more important…"