It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

Speak little, do much.

Little boats should keep near shore

Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.