Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.
I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.