For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.