Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

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

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.