Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.