He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.
The best doctor gives the least medicines.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one
...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.