When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties
He that drinks fast, pays slow.
As Pride increases, Fortune declines.
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.