That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
When you are in debt, then you are a slave.
Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.