Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion.

It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.