“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”

“I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.”

“Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.”

“Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.”

“There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.”

“A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and ...”

“How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”