“Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.”
“A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.”
“A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.”
“Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.”
“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.”