Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on