I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

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.

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

Bread is the staff of life.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.