The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Half a truth is often a great lie.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Hunger is the best pickle.
If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.
Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.
Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This...
...as I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
The best is the cheapest.
A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
God helps them that helps themselves.