God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.