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.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.