The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

Little boats should keep near shore