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

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

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

That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.

[T]is not all fishing to fish.

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!]

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.