I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

All cats are gray in the dark.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.