¶ If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

Rob not for burnt offerings.

¶ Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

¶ All would live long, but none would be old.

¶ Great good-nature, without Prudence, is a great Misfortune

¶ The golden age never was the present age.

¶ What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

We may give advice, but we can not give conduct.

¶ Honors change manners.

Youth is pert and positive, age modest and doubting. So ears of corn, when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their heads when weighty, full and ripe.

¶ Nine men in ten are suicides.

¶ Don't judge of Men's Wealth or Piety, by their Sunday appearance ☛ I☛

¶ Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man.

The wise and brave dares own that he was wrong.

¶ Sorrow is good for nothing but sin.

¶ Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom

¶ A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

¶ Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

¶ An hundred thieves can not strip one naked man, especially if his skin 's off.

¶ Today is yesterday's pupil.

¶ Generous minds are all of a kin.

¶ A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of moon.

¶ Think of three things: whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

¶ Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

¶ The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 't is nonsense.

¶ Meanness is the parent of insolence.

¶ To be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to bed with a razor.

¶The doors of wisdom are never shut.

¶ Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

¶ Would you be loved, love and be lovable.

¶ In the affairs of this world men are saved, not by Faith, but by the want of it.

¶ Friendship can not live with ceremony, nor without civility

¶ He that would travel much, should eat little.

¶The end of Passion is the beginning of Repentance.

¶ God gives all things to industry.

¶ Eat few suppers, and you'll need few Medicines.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults, or resolution enough to mend them!

¶ Many a long dispute among Divines may be thus abridged: It is so; it is not so: It is so; it is not so.

¶ Two dry sticks will burn a green one.

¶ Praise little, dispraise less.

¶ Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense. Is it likely then they should agree about things invisible?

¶ Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad Habits. ¶ He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

¶ If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: the Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

¶ If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.

¶ If you'd have it done, go; if not, send.

¶ Tart words make no friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

¶ Dine with little, sup with less; do better still: sleep supperless

¶ What you would seem to be, be really.

¶ Industry, perseverance and frugality make fortune yield.

¶ Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.

¶ If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

¶ It's common for men to give pretended reasons, instead of one real one.

He's a fool that can not conceal his Wisdom.

You may talk too much on the best of subjects.

¶ All blood is alike ancient.

A man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.

To God we owe fear and love; to our neighbors justice and character; to ourselves prudence and sobriety.

¶ No gains without pains.

¶Light-heeled mothers make leaden-heeled daughters.

¶ When the well's dry we know the worth of water.

¶ Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire.

¶ The generous mind least regards money, and yet most feels the want of it.