Let thy discontents be thy secrets.
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. – Ben Franklin.
A friend in need is a friend indeed!
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
If you wouldn’t live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
A full Belly brings forth every Evil.
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook’s Shop.
If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
A traveller should have a hog’s nose, a deer’s legs, and an ass’s back.