4436. The burnt Child dreads the Fire. - Thomas Fuller

270. A Man among Children will be long a Child, a Child among Men will be soon a Man.

4495. The Ebb will fetch off, what the Tide brings in.

All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it hath been my constant Custom to note down and record whatever I thought of myself, or receiv'd from Men, or Books worth preserving. Among other things, I wrote out Apothegms, Maxims, Proverbs, acute Expressions, vulgar Sayings, &c. And having at length collected more than ever any Englishman has before me, I have ventur'd to send them forth, to try their Fortune among the People.