Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Well done is better than well said.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

Lost Time is never found again.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

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.

A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on which our religion is founded — such as the fall of our first parents by eating an apple, the coming of Christ to repair the mischief, his miracles and suffering, etc. When he had finished an Indian orator stood up to thank him.‘What you have told us,’ says he, ‘is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider. We are much obliged by your kindness in coming so far to tell us those things which you have heard from your mothers. In return, I will tell you some of those we have heard from ours.‘In the beginning, our fathers had only the flesh of animals to subsist on, and if their hunting was unsuccessful they were starving. Two of our young hunters, having killed a deer, made a fire in the woods to boil some parts of it. When they were about to satisfy their hunger, they beheld a beautiful young woman descend from the clouds and seat herself on that hill which you see yonder among the Blue Mountains.‘They said to each other, “It is a spirit that perhaps has smelt our broiling venison and wishes to eat of it; let us offer some to her.” They presented her with the tongue; she was pleased with the taste of it and said: “Your kindness shall be rewarded; come to this place after thirteen moons, and you will find something that will be of great benefit in nourishing you and your children to the latest generations.” They did so, and to their surprise found plants they had never seen before, but which from that ancient time have been constantly cultivated among us to our great advantage. Where her right hand had touched the ground they found maize; where her left had touched it they found kidney-beans; and where her backside had sat on it they found tobacco.’The good missionary, disgusted with this idle tale, said: ‘What I delivered to you were sacred truths; but what you tell me is mere fable, fiction, and falsehood.’The Indian, offended, replied: ‘My brother, it seems your friends have not done you justice in your education; they have not well instructed you in the rules of common civility. You saw that we, who understand and practise those rules, believed all your stories; why do you refuse to believe ours?

Great hopes make everything great possible.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

You may delay, but time will not.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

... a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work....

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc’d may be attended with much Inconvenience.4. Because thro’ more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin’d to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New En

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.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two precepts, to quote no more, Masters treat your slaves with kindness: Slaves serve your masters with cheerfulness and fidelity, clear proofs to the contrary? Nor can the plundering of infidels be in that sacred book forbidden, since it is well known from it, that God has given the world and all that it contains to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it of right as fast as they can conquer it. Let us then hear no more of this detestable proposition, the manumission of christian slaves, the adoption of which would, by depreciating our lands and houses, and thereby depriving so many good citizens of their properties, create universal discontent, and provoke insurrections, to the endangering of government, and producing general confusion.

Games lubricate the body and mind.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

For my own Part, when I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring Favours, but as paying Debts. In my Travels, and since my Settlement, I have received much Kindness from Men, to whom I shall never have any Opportunity of making the least direct Return. And numberless Mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our Services. Those Kindnesses from Men, I can therefore only Return on their Fellow Men; and I can only shew my Gratitude for these mercies from God, by a readiness to help his other Children and my Brethren. For I do not think that Thanks and Compliments, tho’ repeated weekly, can discharge our real Obligations to each other, and much less those to our Creator.

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war...This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.

...as I am not fond of giving advice,having seldom seen it taken

Never confuse Motion with Action.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

I am for doing good to the poor, but...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. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

We stand at the crossroads, each minute, each hour, each day, making choices. We choose the thoughts we allow ourselves to think, the passions we allow ourselves to feel, and the actions we allow ourselves to perform. Each choice is made in the context of whatever value system we have selected to govern our lives. In selecting that value system, we are, in a very real way, making the most important choice we will ever make.Those who believe there is one God who made all things and who governs the world by this providence will make many choices different from those who do not. Those who hold in reverence that being who gave them life and worship Him through adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving will make choices different from those who do not. Those who believe that mankind are all of a family and that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to man will make many choices different from those who do not. Those who believe in a future state in which all that is wrong here will be made right will make many choices different from those who do not. Those who subscribe to the morals of Jesus will make many choices different from those who do not.Since the foundation of all happiness is thinking rightly, and since correct action is dependent on correct opinion, we cannot be too careful in choosing the value system we allow to govern our thoughts and actions.And to know that God governs in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayers, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, is, indeed, a powerful regulator of human conduct.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you...

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart… To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have been restored to freedom, for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty… and to procure for their children an education calculated for their future situation in life; these are the great outlines of the annexed plan, which we have ad

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus.translation (non-literal):O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors.— Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin’s Autobiography

I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets

[I retained] only the Habit of expressing my self in Terms of modest Diffidence, never using when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the Words 'Certainly, 'undoubtedly', or any others that I give the Air of Positiveness to an Opinion; but rather say 'I conceive', or 'I apprehend a Thing to be so or so', 'It appears to me', or 'I should think it so or so for such & such Reasons', or 'I imagine' it to be so or so, or 'it is so' if I am not mistaken.—This Habit I believe has been of great Advantage to me, when I have had occasion to inculcate my Opinions and persuade Men into Measures that I have been from time to time engag'd in promoting.—And as the chief Ends of Conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well meaning sensible Men would not lessen their Power of doing Good by a Positive assuming Manner that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create Opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which Speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving Information or Pleasure: For if you would inform, a positive dogmatical Manner in advancing your Sentiments, may provoke Contradiction & prevent a candid Attention.

If you want a thing done go - if not send.

God helps them that helps themselves.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Those things that hurt instruct.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

All would live long but none would be old.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost and for want of a horse the rider was lost being overtaken and slain by the enemy all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Little boats should keep near shore.

Teach your child to hold his tongue He'll learn fast enough to speak.

A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.

Perform without fail what you resolve.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards.

Without love what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out one against the other I take the course indicated by what remains.

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Eat to please thyself but dress to please others.

Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.

Beware of little expenses a small leak will sink a great ship.

If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.

Keep flax from fire youth from gaming.

Well done is better than well said.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

We must all hang together else we shalFall hang separately.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Take time for all things.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe seldom executed.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Were the offer made true I would engage to run again from beginning to end the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author to correct in a second edition certain errors of the first.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an overcare of it.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.

Let they child's first lesson be obedience and the second will be what thou wilt.

Lost time is never found again.

You may delay but time will not.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.

The proud hate pride - in others.

If principle is good for anything it is worth living up to.

Mine is better than ours.

Mine is better than ours.

The best is the cheapest.

If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

If you would be loved love and be lovable.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself.

If you want a thing done go if not send.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance silence order resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chastity and humility.

Success has ruined many a man.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail the shoe was lost for want of a shoe the horse was lost for want of a horse the battle was lost for want of the battle the war was lost.

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.

If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.

An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.

If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

Handle your tools without mittens.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.