Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.