Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
Keep conscience clear, then never fear.
Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful.
A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
The proof of gold is fire...
If you can’t pay for a thing, don’t buy it. If you can’t get paid for it, don’t sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don’t wait for time.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one’s own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he’ll learn fast enough to speak.
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Laws without morals are in vain.
A man of knowledge, like a rich soil, feeds, if not a world of corn, a world of weeds.
I have never seen the Philosopher’s Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man’s Gold into Lead.
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.