Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.

'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.

He who gives early gives twice.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.