Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.