Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

Time takes away the grief of men.

To know nothing is the happiest life.