He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.