Don't cry over spilled milk
Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.
If better is possible, good is not enough
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .