# Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

# The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

# A benevolent¹ man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance².

# Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

# Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

# Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

# Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.

# Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

# Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

# God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

# Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

# He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

# If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

# If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.

# Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

# Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

# Here comes the orator³ with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

# He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.