We often despise what is most useful to us.
It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.