That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.