"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude."

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

"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..."

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

"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."

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

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

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."

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

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon."

"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."

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

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."

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

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Little strokes fell great oaks."

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

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

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

"Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle."

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

"Some are weather-wise some are otherwise."

"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

"Imitate Jesus and Socrates."

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."

"Lost time is never found again."

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

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"The proud hate pride - in others."

"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."

"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."

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

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

"The doors of wisdom are never shut."

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

"Well done is better than well said."

"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."

"Those things that hurt instruct."

"When in doubt, don't."

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

"Observe all men, thyself most."