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

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

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

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

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.