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.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Time is money.
When in doubt, don’t.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
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.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Remember that credit is money.
I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
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.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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