He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glisters gold.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.