Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.