"Preparation is the burden of fools."

"Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting."

"He that pursues two hares at once, commonly catches neither."

"For every pound of sand you eat, another shilling's yours to keep."

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."