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.
Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.