My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.