If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.