“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“Necessity never made a good bargain.”

“Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.”

“He that falls in love with himself, will have no Rivals.”

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“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.”

“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.”