Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.

Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.

Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.

Faire is not faire, but that which pleaseth.

To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.

To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.

The reasons of the poore weigh not.

The reasons of the poore weigh not.

There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]

There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
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For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.