Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

The first blow is half the battle.

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.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.