Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Those who laugh often never grow old.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

A light purse is a heavy curse.