Beware of the little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.