When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.

The ancients tell us what is best, but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

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

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

In the Affairs of this World, Men are saved, not by faith, but by the Lack of it.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Women are books, and men the readers be…

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

Speak little, do much.

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

He that’s content, hath enough; He that complains has too much

The most trifling actions of a man, in my opinion, as well as the smallest features and lineaments of the face give a nice observer some notion of his mind.