"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence"
"Applause waits on success"
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do"
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one"
"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief"
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"
"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"
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones"
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move"
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance"
"A place for everything, everything in its place"
"A penny saved is a penny earned"
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle"
"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave"
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one"
"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man"
"God helps those who help themselves"
"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price"
"Creditors have better memories than debtors"
"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor"
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail"
"Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities"
"Beware the hobby that eats"
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges"
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas"
"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats"
"He that won't be counseled can't be helped"
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner"
"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"
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her"
"He that rises late must trot all day"
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too"
"Games lubricate the body and the mind"
"Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel"
"For 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"
"Fatigue is the best pillow"
"No nation was ever ruined by trade"
"Nine men in ten are would be suicides"
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it"
"Lost time is never found again"
"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt"
"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it"
"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man"
"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture"
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth"
"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable"
"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone"
"If you desire many things, many things will seem few"
"If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately"
