The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.