Lesser-known maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanack:

• Happy that Nation, — fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting.
• He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.
• Kings and bears often worry their keepers.
• Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can’st.
• Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason.
• Those who are fear’d, are hated.
• Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.
• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
• Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

And: “Mankind are very odd Creatures: One Half censure what they practise, the other half practise what they censure; and the rest always say and do as they ought.”