He who can have patience can have what he will.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and s...
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.
Time is money.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Handle your tools without mittens.
He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but...
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.