The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.