Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

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.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!