Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.