Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.