When buying a house, check the beams; when choosing a wife; check the mother.

Liberty is dearer than gold.

Every mickle mek a mockle.

The strongest is always in the right.

When the lords come out of the council-house, they are wiser than when they went in.

Being loved is the best way of being useful.

Who has once deceived will ever be a suspect.

Great promises and small performances.

It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.

What you can dead and leave you can live and see or enjoy.