A place for everything, everything in its place.
Marry above thy match and you will get a master.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.