If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

From the egg to the apple.