A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.