Success has ruin'd many a man.
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An old young man will be a young old man.
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
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Ill thrives that hapless family that shows a cock that's silent, and a hen that crows: I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
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Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.
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When death puts out our flame, the snuff will tell, if we are wax, or tallow, by the smell.
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If thou would'st live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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He that is of Opinion Money will do every Thing may well be suspected of doing every Thing for Money.
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Ignorance leads Men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.
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Trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
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He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.
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Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
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He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
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Grace thou thy house, and let not that grace thee.
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He that best understands the World, least likes it.
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A lean Award is better than a fat Judgment.
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God, Parents, and Instructors, can never be requited.
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Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.
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Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.
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One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
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The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it.
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He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
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An ill Wound, but not an ill Name, may be healed.
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
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When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
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Virtue & Happiness are Mother & Daughter.
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A good Wife & Health, is a Man's best Wealth.
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He that Wines for Glass without G, take away L and that's he.
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A quarrelsome Man has no good Neighbours.
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Buy what thou hast no need of, and e'er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
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Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism).
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Read much, but not too many books.
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You may be more happy than princes, if you will be more virtuous.
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
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