Charles Cotton

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

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

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

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

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

“Man is the most bungling tradesman of all.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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