Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Assassination's the fastest way.
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.