If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Little strokes fell great oaks.

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.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.