Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

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

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.