Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.