There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

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.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Comparisons are odious.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.