Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.
I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.
Great spenders are bad lenders.
Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them ’twill despise thee and increase them.
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.
Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.
Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.
Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.
Out of adversity comes opportunity.
Forewarn’d, forearm’d.
Bad gains are true losses.
Little leaks sink the ship.
Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion.
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.
Dally not with other folk’s spouses or money.
A good spouse and health is a person’s best wealth.
E’er you remark another’s sin, bid your own conscience look within.