Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.