It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
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.
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Great hopes make great men.
Bad excuses are worse than none.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
Care and diligence bring luck.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.