Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.