The early morning has gold in its mouth.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
Let each new year find you a better person.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
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.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.