A closed mouth catches no flies.
He who reforms, God assists.
Man appoints, and God disappoints.
Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.