Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.