Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]

[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Look to your health: and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy; and therefore value it.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Of this blest man, let his just praise be given,_x000D_ _x000D_ Heaven was in him, before he was in Heaven.