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