It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day 's a groat a year.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon