"How oft he finds himself the last, who was the first to saddle."

"It is the treason that finds favour, and not the traitor who is guilty of it."

"He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs."

"The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue."

"The doctor begins where the apothecary ends, and the clergyman where the doctor ends."

"An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit."

"Idleness is the open field of perdition, well tilled and sown with evil thoughts."

"A little pebble will a waggon overturn."

"Even as there is no virtue which is wanting to the busy man, so there is no vice which does not bear the idle company."

"Where wedges are worthless, the finger nails may serve."