Were the offer made true I would engage to run again from beginning to end the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author to correct in a second edition certain er...
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the...
Little boats should keep near shore.
At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.
Imitate Jesus and Socrates
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon...
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.