It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
A man with courage has every blessing.
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.