Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.