Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

He that's content hath enough.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.