“Contempt is the best return for scurrility.”

The higher you climb, the harder you may fall.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never her age.

Common sense is very uncommon with a lot of people.

The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.

A swift eater, a swift worker.

It is better to be a live rabbit than a tiger.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances precarious.

All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth.

The happiest place in the world to live is within one’s income.

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

The greatest art is the art of life.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Hunger fetches the wolf out of the woods.

A good surgeon must have an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand.

The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.

Hunger finds no fault with moldy corn.