One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
Love your Neighbour; yet don’t pull down your Hedge.
Read much, but not too many books.
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
To be thrown upon one’s own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped.
I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.