The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.