Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.