Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

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

Silence never makes any blunders.