All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.