Great spenders are bad lenders.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

An old man in a house is a good sign.