Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
That which hurts, also instructs.
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
I would rather have it said, ‘He lived usefully,’ than, ‘He died rich.’
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?
A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
He’s a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.