Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Man is a tool-making animal

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.