"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it"
"Better be alone than in bad company"
"Better a tooth out than always aching"
"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money"
"Bad excuses are worse than none"
"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much"
"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief"
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins"
"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong"
"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife"
"Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all"
"Charity begins at home, but should not end there"
"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth"
"One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low"
"Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves"
"Care and diligence bring luck"
"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire"
"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity"
"We have all forgot more than we remember"
"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed"
"If you have one true friend you have more than your share"
"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all"
"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched"
"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart"
"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost"
"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame"
"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf"
"In fair weather prepare for foul"
"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks"
"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help"
"The more wit the less courage"
"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak"
"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night"
"Poor men's reasons are not heard"
"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into"
"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time"
