Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

So many horrid Ghosts.

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.