“It is easy to despise what you cannot get”
“Be content with your lot; once cannot be first in everything.”
“It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it”
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched”
“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”