"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning"
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning"
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it"
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy"
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody"
"Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion"
"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage"
"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting"
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Beauty and folly are old companions"
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing"
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man"
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment"
"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"
"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 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"
"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"
"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"
