There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
Many littles make a much.
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.