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| Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to. | 1 |
| Daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, / Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. | 2 |
| Doubtless the pleasure is as great / Of being cheated as to cheat. | 3 |
| Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear. | 4 |
| Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant appears. | 5 |
| Fools are known by looking wise. | 6 |
| Fools for arguments use wagers. | 7 |
| For all a rhetorician’s rules / Teach nothing but to name his tools. | 8 |
| For all he did he had a reason, / For all he said, a word in season; / And ready ever was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote. | 9 |
| For all men live and judge amiss / Whose talents do not jump with his. | 10 |
| For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel state of ours, / The rabble are the supreme powers. | 11 |
| For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the size of pots of ale. | 12 |
| For men are brought to worse diseases / By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over. | 13 |
| For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a trope. | 14 |
| For rhyme the rudder is of verses, / With which, like ships, they steer their courses. | 15 |
| For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. | 16 |
| For wealth is all things that conduce / To man’s destruction or his use; / A standard both to buy and sell / All things from heaven down to hell. | 17 |
| For when disputes are wearied out, / ’Tis interest still resolves the doubt. | 18 |
| Full oft have letters caused the writers / To curse the day they were inditers. | 19 |
| Have a care o’ the main chance. | 20 |
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| He could distinguish and divide / A hair ’twixt south and south-west side. | 21 |
| He knew what’s what, and that’s as high / As metaphysic wit can fly. | 22 |
| He that complies against his will, / Is of the same opinion still. | 23 |
| He that imposes an oath makes it, / Not he that for convenience takes it. | 24 |
| Justice gives sentence many times / On one man for another’s crimes. | 25 |
| Justice, while she winks at crimes, / Stumbles on innocence sometimes. | 26 |
| Lawyers, of whose art the basis / Is raising feuds and splitting cases. | 27 |
| Nature has made man’s breast no windows / To publish what he does within doors, / Nor what dark secrets there inhabit, / Unless his own rash folly blab it. | 28 |
| Night is the Sabbath of mankind, / To rest the body and the mind. | 29 |
| Nothing’s more dull and negligent / Than an old lazy government, / That knows no interest of state, / But such as serves a present strait, / And, to patch up or shift, will close, / Or break alike, with friends or foes. | 30 |
| The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered. | 31 |
| The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself; for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack. | 32 |
| Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can never do that’s slain. | 33 |
| What makes all doctrines plain and clear? / About two hundred pounds a year. / And that which was prov’d true before / Prove false again, two hundred more. | 34 |
| Whatever sceptic could inquire for, / For every why he had a wherefore. | 35 |
| Why should not conscience have vacation / As well as other courts o’ th’ nation? | 36 |
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