Life ain't all beer and skittles.
The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.