Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin
Little boats should keep near shore
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.