Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"