Lavishness is not generosity.
Category: Generosity
He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.
Category: Giving
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
Category: Gold
The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Category: Goodness
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Category: Gossip
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Category: Gratitude
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Category: Greed
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
Category: Haste
Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
Category: Hatred
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Category: Hope
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Category: Husbands
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Category: Improvement
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Category: Inheritance
A man is not good or bad for one action.
Category: Judgment And Judges
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Category: Juries