Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?