The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.

Bad gains are true losses.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.