Nothing preaches better than the act.
If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
What you would seem to be, be really.
He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.