Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.
There is no love lost between us.