“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Servants don’t know a good master till they have served a worse.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Little friends may prove great friends.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can’t fool them all of the time.

United we stand; divided we fall.

One story sounds good until another is told.

Self-help is the best help.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.