“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”

“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”

“If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.”

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

“Employ your time well, if you mean to get leisure.”

“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”

“To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy Meals.”

“I don’t believe in stereotypes. I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis.”

“The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.”

“Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.”

“Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.”

“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.”

“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”

“The most trifling actions of a man, in my opinion, as well as the smallest features and lineaments of the face give a nice observer some notion of his mind.”

“It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.”

“Security without liberty is called prison.”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”

“We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.”

“We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep.”

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.”

“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”

“There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.”

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

“By the collision of different sentiments, sparks of truth are struck out, and political light is obtained. The different factions, which at present divide us, aim all at the public good; the differences are only about the various modes of promoting it.”

“I would advise you to read with a pen in hand, and enter in a little book short hints of what you find that is curious, or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such particulars in your memory.”

“After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.”

“Our opinions are not in our own power; they are formed and governed much by circumstances that are often as inexplicable as they are irresistible.”

“If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?”

“Having been poor is no shame, being ashamed of it is.”

“The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.”

“Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike.”

“God helps them who help themselves.”

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

“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.”

“This is sometimes of great use.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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