"Never promise more than you can perform."

Maxim 528.

"A wise man never refuses anything to necessity."

Maxim 540.

"No one should be judge in his own cause."

Maxim 545.

"Necessity knows no law except to conquer."

Maxim 553.

"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."

Maxim 557.

"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."

Maxim 559.

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

Maxim 571.

"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal."

Maxim 580.

"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

Maxim 581.

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

Maxim 584.

"Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn."

Maxim 593.

"You cannot put the same shoe on every foot."

Maxim 596.

"He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so."

Maxim 598.

"A guilty conscience never feels secure."

Maxim 617.

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."

Maxim 633.

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Maxim 640.

"Money alone sets all the world in motion."

Maxim 656.

"He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage."

Maxim 673.

"You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm."

Maxim 674.

"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody."

Maxim 675.

"We should provide in peace what we need in war."

Maxim 709.

"Look for a tough wedge for a tough log."

Maxim 723.

"How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!"

Maxim 725.

"They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands."

Maxim 759.

"He gets through too late who goes too fast."

Maxim 767.

"In every enterprise consider where you would come out."

Maxim 777.

"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."

Maxim 780.

"The highest condition takes rise in the lowest."

Maxim 781.

"It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are."

Maxim 785.

"No one knows what he can do till he tries."

Maxim 786.

"The next day is never so good as the day before."

Maxim 815.

"He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap."

Maxim 825.

"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings."

Maxim 827.

"It matters not how long you live, but how well."

Maxim 829.

"It is vain to look for a defence against lightning."

Maxim 835.

"No good man ever grew rich all at once."

Maxim 837.

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

Maxim 847.

"It is better to learn late than never."

Maxim 864.

"Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

Maxim 865.

"Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment."

Maxim 866.

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."

Maxim 872.

"Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad."

Maxim 911.

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."

Maxim 914.

"He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak."

Maxim 930.

"You need not hang up the ivy-branch over the wine that will sell."

Maxim 968.

"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery."

Maxim 995.

"Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one."

Maxim 1042.

"Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency."

Maxim 1060.

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

Maxim 1070.

"Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little."

Maxim 1072.