Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.