Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.