Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.