Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Let the worst come to the worst.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.