If you have a secret and tell someone everyone will know. You can only keep a secret if you don't tell anyone.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.