An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.

A small family is soon provided for.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.