“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”
“There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
“Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.”
“God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.”
“Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.”
“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”
“To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.”
“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.”
“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.”
“Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”
“There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”
“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
“Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”
“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.”
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
“Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.”
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
“Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”