The King’s cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, ’tis made of the people’s milk.
I looked around for God’s judgments, but saw no signs of them.
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.
Families ought to be noisy.
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Constant dropping wears away stones.
If you wou’d be reveng’d of your enemy, govern your self.
The nearest I can make it out, “Love your Enemies” means, “Hate your Friends”
There is no little enemy.
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.
Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous.
Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things.
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best.
Nothing’s so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.
Sloth and Silence are a Fool’s Virtues.
It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.