By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.