A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

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

Don't cry over spilled milk

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.