The commendations of this people are not always […]left-handed and detractive.

It appeareth to me that even to praise one’s-self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke.

If the ophthalmic branch is cut the patient must be told about the hazards of having an insensate cornea.

We slept together on the first date.