Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

He who gives early gives twice.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.