A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
A book that is shut is but a block.