Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Good things soon find a purchaser.