Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

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

Dine on little, and sup on less.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

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