Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.