At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.