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.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Man is a tool-making animal