By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

You are a king by your own fire-side, as much as any monarch in his throne.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.