The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
If you have a bald head don’t walk out in the sun because you will get burned.
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
Most people die at 25 but are buried at 75.
Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty – and fart proudly.
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.
The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.
As often as we do good, we sacrifice.
The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast.
The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health’s sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine.
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.