It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.