Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind.
A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it.
Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.
God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year’s Industry bless.
Why does the blind man’s wife paint herself.
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others.
Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for ’tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it’s present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses.
He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.
Now I’ve a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
Despair ruins some, presumption many.
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.