"A goodly portly man, i' faith, and..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?”

“Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.”

“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

“Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.”

“If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.”

“If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.”

“Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.”

“The poorest people are the sweetest people.”

“Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.”