The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
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 drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
Eaten bread is forgotten.