All things are difficult before they are easy

All doors open to courtesy

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof

There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them

What children hear at home soon flies abroad

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money

Business is the salt of life

Bad excuses are worse than none

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

That trial is not fair where affection is judge