In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
Never meet trouble half-way.
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that ‘liberals’ will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.
Spend and be free, but make no waste.
The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields.
A pound of worry won’t pay an ounce of debt.
Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
Manners make often fortunes.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
A light-heel’d mother makes a heavy-heel’d daughter.
Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
Fish must swim thrice – once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
Man does what he can, and God what he will.
The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
After a Christmas comes a Lent.
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.
A maid that laughs is half taken.