The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.