Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.