“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”