Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.