Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Well done is better than well said
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
