| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Otway |
| | | Children blessings seem, but torments are, / When young, our folly, and when old, our fear. | 1 |
| Clocks will go as they are set; but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. | 2 |
| Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves / Or fools, that use them when they want good sense; / Honesty needs no disguise or ornament. | 3 |
| Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man’s fetter and the rage of fools. | 4 |
| Justice is lame as well as blind among us. | 5 |
| No flattery, boy; an honest man can’t live by ’t; / It is a little sneaking art, which knaves / Use to cajole and soften fools withal. | 6 | | |
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