Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.
We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.
God exalts the man who humbles himself.
Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
When we are asleep, we are all equal.
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
It requires a long time to know anyone.
Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Give the devil his due.
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man’s table.
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Get out of harms way.
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.