The best doctor gives the least medicines.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.
Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
What I am to be, I am now becoming.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Doing your best means never stopping trying.
Order – Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Speak little, do much.