I didn’t fail the test; I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!

He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

It seems to me that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

Security without liberty is called prison.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

You may delay, but time will not.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

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

Never confuse Motion with Action.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

Words may show a man’s wit, actions his meaning.

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

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.