If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?
I am in the prime of senility.
There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.