You may delay, but time will not.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and...
Applause waits on success.
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy...
Great hopes make everything great possible.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe...
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.