Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.