God made the country, and man made the town.
Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.