Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

They talk like angels but they live like men.