A fool’s wild speech confounds the wise.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
All is possible for those who dare to die!
Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired – thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
Threatened folk live long.
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.