Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. 

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Never confuse motion with action.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

There are no gains without pains. 

“The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others, than showing a great deal yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with his own facetiousness and ingenuity, will the sooner come into it again.”

“Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.”

“There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means.”

“If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.”

“Fear to do ill, and you need fear naught else.”

“Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.”

“A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error. ”

“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 found to be otherwise.”

“The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.”

“A fat kitchen makes a lean will.”

“Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst. ”

“I never saw an oft-removed tree, nor yet an oft-removed family, that throve so well as those that settled be.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

“The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho’ it never produced any fruit.”

“Eat to live, and not live to eat.”

“A great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him.”

“When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.”

“When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!’”

“Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.”

“To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.”

“He’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.”

“Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.”

“Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”

“God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.”

“He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.”

“This is sometimes of great use.”

“When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.”

“Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.”

“Where liberty is, there is my country.”

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”

“There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.”

“Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.”

“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?”

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”