"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."

"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

"The best is the cheapest."

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

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

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

"You may delay, but time will not."

"Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason."

"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."

"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

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

"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75."

"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."

"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him."

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

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

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

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."

"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."

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

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

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

"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."

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

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."

"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."

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

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

"Little boats should keep near shore."

"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."

"Perform without fail what you resolve."

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

"Time is money."

"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

"Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."

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

"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

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

"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."

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

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

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