God who gives the wound gives the salve.

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

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.