Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.
Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.