A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?
Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.
If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Success has ruined many a man.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Chris...