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.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

All cats look gray in the dark.

Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines.

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.