Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Most virtue lies between two vices.
No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
Who’s started has half finished.
There is measure in all things.
Faults are soon copied.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour’s house is on fire.
Work at it night and day.
Wine unlocks the breast.
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.