Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Be a gentleman farmer.
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.