Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have lei...
He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public prov...
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war...This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest wa...
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.