Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.