In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.