In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.'

Duly twice a morning Would I be sprinkling it with fountain-water. At last it grew, and grew, and bore, and bore, Till at the length It grew a gallows, and did…

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all - he sort of rots away, like a…

They had left him for dead in the middle of a pool of blood in his own bedroom, his belly slit open like gaping barn doors, the hilt of the knife wedged agains…