Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.