More wisdom from Poor Richard’s Almanack:

• Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
• The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
• The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
• Prosperity discovers Vice, Adversity, Virtue.
• God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
• The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
• Beauty and folly are old companions.
• Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
• Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
• What’s given shines, what’s receiv’d is rusty.
• Sally laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
• Words may shew a man’s Wit, but Actions his Meaning.
• It’s common for men to give pretended reasons instead of one real one.
• Fear to do ill, and you need fear nought else.
• Success has ruin’d many a Man.

Altho’ thy teacher act not as he preaches,
Yet ne’ertheless, if good, do what he teaches;
Good counsel, failing men may give, for why,
He that’s aground knows where the shoal doth lie.