James Howell — British Writer born on December 30, 1594, died on December 30, 1666

James Howell was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol... (wikipedia)

This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.