The ancients tell us what is best, but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

Hide not your talents; they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?

To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

In the Affairs of this World, Men are saved, not by faith, but by the Lack of it.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Women are books, and men the readers be…

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.