Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
There is no little enemy