If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.