No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.