Charles Cotton

“Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a drunkard is the worst.”

“To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.”

“Wine is a turn-coat; first a friend, and then an enemy.”

“Who has not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.”

“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife.”

“Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.”

“Man is the most bungling tradesman of all.”

“Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go abroad upon her errands to negotiate all her important concerns.”

“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”

“No man is a better merchant than he that lays out his time upon God, and his money upon the poor.”

“Blessings may appear under the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.”

“A good name is a more decent, lasting, and valuable thing, than a great estate.”

“The world is a bigger thing than you have seen.”