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

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.

Behind the cross is the devil.