Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.
Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.
A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
Many a truth is told in jest.