"What is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue?"

"No gains without pains."

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or 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."

"Fish and visitors stink after three days."

"Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended."