The golden age is before us, not behind us.

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.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.