Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.