Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

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

Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like a man traveling in foggy weather they see those at a distance before them wrapped up in a fog, as well as those behind them, and also people in the fields on each side; but near them, all appears clear, though in truth they are as much in the fog as any of them.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.