Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

The over curious are not over wise.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.