and a worse fupper. A chearful look, and forgiveness, is the best revenge of an affront. The request of a grandee is a kind of force upon a man. I am always for the ftrongeft fide. If folly were pain, we should have great crying out in every houfe. Serve a great man, and you will know what forrow is. Make no abfolute promises, for nobody will help you to perform them. Every man is a fool in another man's opinion. Wisdom comes after a long courfe of years. Good fortune comes to him who takes care to get her. They have a fig at Rome for him who refufes any thing that is given him. One love drives out another. Kings go as far as they are able, not fo far as they defire to go. So play fools-I must love you and you love fomebody elfe. He who thinks what he is to do, muft think what he should say too. Arofes have thorns about them. He loves mifchief may happen which will do me (or make me) good. Threatened men eat bread ftill, i. e. live on. Get but a good name and you may lie in bed. Truth is the child of God. He who hath an ill caufe, let him fell it cheap. A wife man never fays, I did not think of that. Refpect a good man that henefs of the understanding. Great pofts and may refpect you, and be civil to an ill man that he may not affront you. A wife man only knows when to change his mind. The wife's counsel is not worth much, but he who takes it not is a fool. When two friends have a common purfe, one fings and the other weeps. I loft my reputation by fpeaking ill of others, and being worse spoken of. He who loves you will make you weep, and who hures you may make you laugh. Good deeds live and flourish when all other things are at an end. At the end of life La Gloria is fung. By yielding you make all your friends; but if you will tell all the truth you know, you will have your head broke. since you know every thing, and I know nothing, pray tell me what I dreamed this morning. Your looking-glafs will tell you what none of your friends will. The clown was angry, and he paid dear for it. If you are vexed or angry, you will have two troubles inftead of one. The last year was ever better than the prefent. That wound that was never given is beft cured of any other. Afflictions teach much, but they are a hard cruel mafter. Improve rather by other men's errors, than find fault with them. Since you can bear with your own, bear with other men's failings too. Men lay out all their understanding in ftudying to know one another, and fo no man knows himfelf. The applaufe of the mob or mul titude is but a poor comfort. Truths and you better who ftrives to make you good, than he who ftrives to please you. You know not what may happen, is the hope of fools. Sleep makes every man as great and rich as the greateft. Follow, but do not run after good fortune. Anger is the weak offices are like ivy on the wall, which makes it look fine, but ruins it. Make no great hafte to be angry; for if there be occafion, you will have time enough for it. Riches which, all applaud, the owner feels the weight or care of. A competency leaves you wholly at your difpofal. Riches make men worfe in their latter days. He is the only rich man, who understands the ufe of wealth. He is a great fool who fquanders rather than doth good with lus eftate. To heap fresh kindneffes upon ungrateful men, is the wifeft, but withal the moft cruel revenge. The fool's pleatures coft his very dear, Contempt of a man is the the fharpeft reproof. Wis without difcretion is a fword in the hand of a fool. Other virtues without prudence are a blind beauty. Neither enquire after, nor hear of, nor take notice of the faults of others, when you fee them. Years pafs not over men's heads for nothing. Anhalter will fooner come without taking any care about it, than a canonry. If all affes wore park faddles, what a good trade would the packfaddlers have. The ufual forms of civility oblige no man. There is no more faithful nor pleafant friend than a good book. He who loves to employ himself well can never want fomething to do. A thousand things are well forgot for peace and quictnefs fake. A wife man avoids all occafions of being angry. A wife man aims at nothing which is out of his reach, Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reafon. A good man hath ever good luck. No pleafure is a better penny-worth than that which virtue yields. No old age is agreeable but that of a wife man. A man's wifdom is no where more seen than in his marrying himself. Folly and anger are but two names for the fame thing. Fortune knocks once at least at every one's door. The father's virtue is the beft inheritance a child can have. No fenfual pleasure ever lafted fo much as for a whole hour. Riches and virtue do not often keep one another company. Ruling one's anger well, is not fo good as preventing it. The moft ufeful learning in the world is that which teaches us how to die well. The beft men come worfe out of company than they went into it. The moft mixed or allayed joy is that men take in their children. Find money and marriage to rid yourself of an ill daughter. There is no better advice than to look always at the idue of things. Compare your griefs with other men's, and they will feem lefs. Owe money to be paid at Fefter and Lent will feem thort to you. He who only returns home, doth not run away. lie can do nothing well who is at enmity with his God. Many avoid others, becaute they fee not and know not themfelves. God is always opening his hand to us. Let us be friends, and put out the devil's eye. 'Tis true there are many very good wives, but they are under ground. Talking very much, and lying, are coutin-germans. With all your learning be fure to know yourself. One erron breeds twenty more. I will never jest with my eye nor with my religion. Do what you have to do juft now, and leave it not for-tomorrow. Ill tongues fhould have a pair of fciffors. Huge long hair, and very little brains. Speak little, hear much, and you will feldom be much out. Give me a virtuous woman, and I will make her a fine woman. He who trufts nobody is never deceived.. Drink water like an ox, wine like a king of Spain. I am not forry that my fon lofes his money, but that he will have his revenge, and play on ftill. My mother bid me be confident, but lay no wagers. A good fire is one half of a man's life. Covetoufnels breaks the fack i. e. lofes a great deal. That meat relithes beft which cofts a man nothing. The afs bears his load, but not an over-load.. He who cats his cock alone, must catch his horfe fo too. He who makes more of you than he used to do, either would cheat you or needs you. Ile that would avoid the fin. muft avoid the occafion of it. Keep yourfelt from the anger of a great man, from a tumult of the mob, from fools in a narrow way, from a man that is marked, from a widow that hath been thrice married, from wind that comes in at a good diftance from him. A man's folly is feen by his finging, his playing, and riding full fpeed. Buying a thing to dear is no bounty. Buy at a fair, and fell at home. Keep aloof from all quarrels, be neither a witness nor party. God doth us more and more good every hour of our lives. An ill blow, or an ill word, is alf you will get from a fool. He who lies long in bed, his eftate pays for it. Confider well of a bufinefs, and difpatch it quickly. He who hath children, hath neither kindred nor friends. May I have a difpute with a at a hole, and from a reconciled enemy. One ounce of mirth is worth more than ten thoufand weight of melancholy. A contented mind is a great gift of God. He that would cheat the devil must rife early in the morning. Every fool is in love with his own bauble. Every ill man will have an ill time. Keep your fword between you and the ftrength of a clown. Be ye laft to go over a deep river. He who hath a handfome wife, or a caftle on the frontier, or a vineyard near the highway, never wants a quarrel. Never deceive your physician, your confeffor, nor your lawyer. Make a bridge of filver for a flying eneiny.wife man, if with any. He who hath loft Never truft him whom you have wronged. Seek for good, and be ready for evil. What you can do alone by yourself, expect not from another. Idlenefs in youth makes way for a painful and miferable old age. He who pretends to be every body's particular friend is nobody's. Confider 'well before you tie that knot you never can undo. Neither praife nor difpraife any before you know them. A prodigal fon fucceeds a covetous father. He is fool enough himfelf who will bray against another afs. Though old and wife, yet ftill advife. Happy is he that mends of himself, without the help of others. A wife man knows his own ignorance, a fool thinks he knows every thing. What you eat yourself never gains you a friend. Great houfe-keeping makes but a poor will. Fair words and foul deeds deceive wife men as well as fools. Eating too well at first makes men cat ill afterwards. Let him fpeak who received, let the giver hold his peace. A houfe built by a man's father, and a vineyard planted by his grandfather. A dapplegrey horfe will die fooner than tire. No woman is ugly when the is dreffed. The beft remedy against an evil man is to keep fhame is loft to all virtue. Being in love own who hath fervants hath enemies which he can own at last. A lie hath no legs. Women, who abandons his poor kindred, God forfake: wind, and fortune, are ever changing. Fools him. He who is not handfome at twenty, and wilful men make the lawyers great. nor ftrong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wife Never figna writing till you have read it, nor at fifty, will never be handfome, strong, rich, drink water till you have feen it. Neither nor wife. He who refolves on the fudden, is any barber dumb, nor any songfter very repents at leifure. He who rifes late lofes his wife. Neither give to all nor contend with prayers, and provides not well for his house. fools. Do no ill, and fear no harm. He He who peeps through a hole may fee what doth fomething who fets his houfe on fire; will vex him. He who amends his faults he fcares away the rats and warms himself. puts himself under God's protection. He I fell nothing on truft till to morrow. [Writ-who loves well fees things at a distance. He ten over the fhop-doors.] The common people pardon no fault in any man. The idler of the fame town never plays well at their feaft, Either rich, or hanged in the attempt. The feaft is over, but here is the fool full. To divide as brothers ufe to do: that which is mine is all my own, that which is yours I go halves in. There will be no money got by lofing your time. He will foon be a loft man himself who keeps fuch men company. By courtefies done to the meaneft men, you get much more than you can lofe. Trouble not yourself about news, it will foon grow ftale and you will have it. That which is well faid, is faid foon enough. When the devils goes to his prayers he means to cheat you. When you meet with a fool, pretend Bafinefs to get rid of him. Sell him for an afs at a fair, who talks much and knows little. He who buys and fells doth not feel what he spends. He who ploughs his land, and breeds cattle, fpins gold. He who will venture nothing muft never get on horseback. He who goes far from home for a wife, either means to cheat, or will be cheated. He who fows his land, trufts in God. He who leaves the great road for a by-path, thinks to fave ground, and he lofes it. He who ferves the public obliges nobody. He who keeps his firft innocency efcapes a thousand fins. He not well be without. He who pays his debts R makes no comparison with others. He only is rich enough who hath all that he defires. The best way of instruction is to practife that which we teach others. It is but a little narrow foul which earthly things can please. The reafon why parents love the younger children beft, is because they have fo little hopes that the elder will do well. The deareft child of all is that which is dead. He who is about to marry fhould confider how it is with his neighbours. There is a much fhorter cu from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue. He is the happy man, not whom other men think, but who thinks himself to be fo. Of finful pleafure repentance only remains. He who hath much wants still more, and then more. The lefs a man sleeps the more he lives. He can never speak well who knows not when to hold his peace. The traeft content is that which no man can deprive you of. The remembrance of wife and good men inftructs as well as their prefence. It is wifdom in a doubtful cafe, rather to take another man's judgment than our own. Wealth betrays the best refolved mind into one vice or other. We are ufually the beft inen when we are worft in health. Learning is wealth to the the poor, an honour to the rich, and a fupport and comfort to old age. Learning procures refpect to good fortune, and helps out the bad. The mafter makes the house to be refpected,not the house the waiter. The short and fure way to reputation, is to take care to be in truth what we would have others think us to be. A good reputation is a fecond, or half an effate. He is the better man who comes nearest to the beft. A wrong judgment of things is the moft mifchievous thing in the world. The neglect or contempt of riches makes a man more truly great than the poffetion of them. That only is true honour which he gives who deferves it himfelf. Beauty and chastity have always a mortal quarrel between them. Look always upon life, and use it as a thing that is lent you. Civil offers are for all men, and good offers for our friends. Nothing in the world is stronger than a man but his own paffions. When a man comes into troubles, money is one of his best friends. He only is the great learned man who knows enough to make him live well. An empt new houfe finifhed-makes a man w fomewhat too late. $57. The Way to Wealth, as clearly bewn in the Preface of an old Pennsylvanian Almanack, intitled, "Poor Richard improved." Written by Dr. Benjamin Franklin. 66 Courteous Reader, I have heard, that nothing gives an author fo great a pleafure, as to find his works, refpectfully quoted by others. Judge, then, how much I muft have been gratified by an incident I am going to relate to you. I topped my horfe, lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants goods. The hour of the fale not being come, they were converfing on the badnels of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, Pray, father Abraham, what think you of the times? Will not thofe heavy taxes quite ruin the country? how fhall we be ever able to pay them? What would you advise us to ? Father Abraham ftood up, and replied, If you would have my advice, I will give it you in thort; " for a word to the wife is enough," as poor Richard fays. They |