Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Well done is better than well said
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.