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.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

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

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

He who gives early gives twice.