There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.