He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.
But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.