“Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.”
“Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.”
“He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.”
“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.”
“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
“One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.”
“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”
“Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.”
“Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.”
“No man is more than another unless he does more than another.”
“Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.”
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
“By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.”
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
“The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
“There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.”
“Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
“'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.”
“A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.”
“'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
“'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.”
“A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.”
“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”
“Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.”
“No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.”
“Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
“When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.”
“She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.”
“Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.”