Futility Closet

More maxims from Poor Richard's Almanack:

• "The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it."
• "Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
• "Most fools think they are only ignorant."
• "Think of three Things — whence you came, where you are going, and to Whom you must account."
• "Good Sense is a Thing all need, few have, and none think they want."
• "A true great Man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an Emperor."
• "A Change of Fortune hurts a wise man no more than a Change of the Moon."
• "Cunning proceeds from Want of Capacity."
• "Nothing so popular as goodness."
• "Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar."
• "Love, cough, and a smoke, can't well be hid."
• "Is there anything men take more pains about than to make themselves unhappy?"