“A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”
“He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.”
“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
“Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.”
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.”
“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
“Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.”
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”
“He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
“They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.”
“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
“We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.”
“He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.”
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.”
“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
“Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.”
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.”