Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

Reckless youth makes rueful age.