Mine is better than ours.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.