There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

though it don't make you laugh outright, it may chance to make ye draw in your Lips, and shew your Teeth like a Monkey;

I never spoke one Word to him in my Life; yet I love him so dearly, that 'tis impossible I should live without him

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.