Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

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

In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

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.

No day is wholly unproductive of good.