He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Read much, but not too many books.

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?

A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.

Lost time can never be found again