A person dishonored is worst than dead.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

He preaches well that lives well.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

That which costs little is less valued.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.