Better slip with foot than tongue.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

Spare when young, and spend when old.