To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.