"If she had been a few years younger, what a fool she would have made of me had she thought it worth her while."

"I am not a good man, but I am a good poet."

"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."

"I have a great love for freedom, and I would rather die than be a slave."

"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 …"