All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.