The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
There is nothing assured to mortals.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
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.]
One Sallow does not make Summer.