If Men Are So Wicked As We

Experience Is The Best Teacher, But A Fool Will Learn From No Other.

Look Before, Or You'll Find Yourself Behind.

I Say It Is Impossible That So Sensible A People [citizens Of Paris], Under Such Circumstances, Should Have Lived So Long By The Smoky, Unwholesome, And Enormously Expensive Light Of Candles, If They Had Really Known That They Might Have Had As Much Pure Light Of The Sun For Nothing.

A Light Purse Is A Heavy Curse.

Use No Hurtful Deceit; Think Innocently And Justly And, If You Speak, Speak Accordingly.