Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

God helps them that help themselves.

He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.