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 man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.