Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.