A hit, a very palpable hit.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.