I always get the better when I argue alone.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.