In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.