Nonfiction Books

"The ancients tell us what is best;"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

"Let thy vices die before thee."

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty"

"If you wou'd not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing."

"You may be more happy than Princes,"

"If thou hast wit & learning, add to it Wisdom and Modesty."

"Buy what thou hast no need of;"

"Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces & beauties of virtue."

"Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar."

"Read much, but not many books."

"Who has deceiv'd thee so oft as thy self?"

"There are three faithful friends,"

"Nothing so popular as GOODNESS."

"The noblest question in the world is,"

"The Creditors are a superstitious sect,"

"Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the"

"Tell a miser he's rich, and a woman she's old,"

"If you have time don't wait for time."

"He that pursues two Hares at once, does not catch one"

"If you'd have a Servant that you like, serve your self."

"To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell."

"Three good meals a day is bad living."

"I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throve so well as those that settled be."

"Don't misinform your Docter nor your Lawyer."

"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."

"Certainlie these things agree, the Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, and the priest from the living and the dead has his Fee."

"A good Lawyer is a bad Neighbour."

"At the working man's house hunger looks in"

"A Traveller should have a hog's nose, deer's legs,"

"No better relation than a prudent & faithful Friend."

"There are no ugly Loves, nor handsome Prisons."

"He that can travel well afoot, keeps a good horse."

"Well done is better than well said."

"Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't be well hid."

"After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."

"Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick."

"He that can compose himself,"

"There is much money given to be laught at,"

"The nearest way to come at glory,"

"Love & lordship hate companions."

"The miser's cheese is the wholesomest."

"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."

"A countryman between 2 Lawyers,"

"He that steals the old man's supper, do's him no wrong."

"The Master piece of Man, is to live to the purpose."

"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig'd to sit upon his own arse."

"He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees."

"I saw few die of Hunger, of Eating 100000."

"Receive before you write, but write before you pay."