If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

And this, and many other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises: but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and content, and leisure to go a-fishing.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

No man can lose what he never had.