All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

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.