Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.