You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
Gifts are like hooks.
Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.
Be cheerful, if you are wise.