I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
Niggards are oftentimes neat.
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.