I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.