So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.