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

“Eat to live, and not live to eat.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“A fat kitchen makes a lean will.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous.”

“Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours”

“There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.”

“Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose”

“In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.”

“Never explain. Never complain.”