I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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

Rome was not built in a day.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

Time ripens all things.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

To give the devil his due.

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

Ill luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Delay always breeds danger.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Plain as the nose on a man's face.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.