Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together.