If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.