For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.