Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?
We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
No man is the wiser for his learning
A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.