He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
Manners make often fortunes.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.
Feather by feather the goose is plucked.