Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

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.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.