Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.