He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Well done is better than well said
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
