It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.