Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.