A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
God helps those who help themselves.
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.