Great talkers are little doers.

Display is as false as it is costly.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Don't cry over spilled milk

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.