It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Applause waits on success.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
A place for everything, everything in its place.
Remember that credit is money.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
being good, peace & war
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.
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.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
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.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Well done is better than well said.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
You may delay, but time will not.
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.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Beware the hobby that eats.
Lost time is never found again.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
God helps those who help themselves.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Hunger is the best pickle.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.