All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

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.]

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

Mistakes are their own instructors

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Our years Glide silently away. No tears, No loving orisons repair The wrinkled cheek, the whitening hair That drop forgotten to the tomb.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.