The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
A thief believes everybody steals.
No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."