Dine on little and sup on less.
Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Mum is the word.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Soul of fibre and heart of oak.
Let us forget and forgive injuries.
He had a face like a benediction.
Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.