Teach your child to hold his tongue, he’l learn fast enough to speak.
Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than Gallon of Vinegar.
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
Success has ruin’d many a Man.
Spare and have is better than spend and crave.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Silence in not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly.
She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.
Saying and Doing, have quarrel’d and parted.