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