Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.