“The rotten apple spoils his companions.”

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

“My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”

“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees”

“He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.”