The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. – Thomas Fuller
History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. – Thomas Fuller
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. – Thomas Fuller
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. – Charlotte Bronte