Lesser-known maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanack:

• Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander, hath as lasting fame as his master.
• Who has deceiv’d thee so oft as thy self?
• We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
• A temper to bear much, will have much to bear.
• Content and riches seldom meet together; riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
• Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.
• Vanity backbites more than malice.
• In success be moderate.
• A new truth is a truth, and an old error is an error, tho’ Clodpate won’t allow either.
• What maintains one Vice would bring up two children.
• The Golden Age never was the present Age.
• Quarrels never could last long, if on one side lay the wrong.
• If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you t’other World?

“Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. Nor is a duty beneficial because it is commanded, but it is commanded because it is beneficial.”