At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

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

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.