There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

All will come out in the washing.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.