A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

There is no little enemy

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.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.