He is not poor who has a competency.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

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.]

Humble things become the humble.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.