Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider
Those who laugh often never grow old.
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.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
When passion rules, she never rules wisely.
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.