Lesser-known maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanac:

• You may be too cunning for One, but not for All.
• Who is rich? He that rejoices in his Portion.
• By diligence and patience, the Mouse bit in two the Cable.
• To be intimate with a foolish Friend, is like going to Bed to a Razor.
• A false Friend and a Shadow attend only while the Sun shines.
• He that goes far to marry, will either deceive or be deceived.
• ‘Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
• Many Foxes grow grey, but few grow good.
• Paintings and Fightings are best seen at a distance.
• Fly pleasures, and they’ll follow you.
• Gifts burst rocks.
• Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
• Let thy vices die before thee.
• Men differ daily, about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible?
• What signifies your Patience, if you can’t find it when you want it?

And “Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”