"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"
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else"
"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse"
"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in"
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning"
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones"
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing"
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace"
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today"
"Necessity never made a good bargain"
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow"
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them"
"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money"
"You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"
"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
"When in doubt, don't"
"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it"
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow"
"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some"
"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first"
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure"
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately"
"She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth"
"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"
"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him"
"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good"
"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"
"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous"
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn"
"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste"
"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 displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed"
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of"
"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt"
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later"
"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it"
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself"
"The first mistake in public business is the going into it"
"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands"
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance"
"The doors of wisdom are never shut"
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong"
"Energy and persistence conquer all things"
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"
"Honesty is the best policy"
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning"
