Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

A liar did ought to have a good memory.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.