Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Man is a tool-making animal

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

Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.

When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.