It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.

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.