He is not poor who has a competency.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]