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Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

Make hay while the sun shines.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

Thank you for nothing.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

This peck of troubles.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

The rather since every man is the son of his own works.

Earned with the sweat of my brows.