Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

No blessing lasts forever.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.