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.
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
All things are difficult before they are easy.