If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

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.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.