Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.