"O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions — Time!"

“A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.”

“A Lady that was drown'd at Sea, and had a wave for her Winding sheet.”

“There are few have Dana's fortune, to have God and gold togather.”

“What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?”

“All these threatening storms, which, like impregnate Clouds, hover o'er our heads, will melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.”

“Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus, Montaigne, Seneca's Tragedies, Horace, Juvenal, Claudian, Pliny, Plutarch's lives, and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.”