Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.