Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.