If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

The evil that we know is best.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

How great in number are the little minded men