All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

If better is possible, good is not enough

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.