Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.