I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.