Bessie-isms:

*Never rush in eager to cheer when someone has followed your advice and things worked well. Remember that sometimes they will follow your advice to utter ruin.

*You are expected to resist the darkness, not use it for cover to hide some wicked undertaking.

Quotable:

As it is the characteristic of of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say little.

La Rochefoucauld  1613-1680