Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Let us see what love can do.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.