Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.