Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and heaven to the virtuous.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe the horse was lost;
For want of a horse the rider was lost—
Being overtaken and slain by the enemy.
If a man save not as he gets, he may keep his nose to the grindstone all his life, and die not worth a groat.
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, and men for punch, forsook hewing and splitting.
The Indians did not make Spain rich, because her out-goes were greater than her incomes.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Many a little makes a mickle.