He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Take time for all things.
A dying man can do nothing easy.
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.