Never meet trouble half-way.
Manners make often fortunes.
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.
A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.