You may delay, but time will not.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
being good, peace & war
Applause waits on success.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Lost time is never found again.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
God helps those who help themselves.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Beware the hobby that eats.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Hunger is the best pickle.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Remember that credit is money.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Well done is better than well said.