As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Grace thou thy House, and let not that grace thee.