That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.