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.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

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

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

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.