Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth