He travels best that knows when to return.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.

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