We've got to have something in place. |
Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. |
What is a ship but a prison? |
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. |
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel |
Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing |
Why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters? Because every man of any fashion amongst them hath his mistress |
Wit without employment is a disease |
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. |