Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.