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

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

He that is rich is wise.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Business neglected is business lost.

Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.