Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
Spare when young, and spend when old.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.