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?