A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.