Industry need not wish.
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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.
It’s better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
Women are books, and men the readers be...
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind’s misery.
The purpose of money was to purchase one’s freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.
Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.