Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
— Benjamin Franklin
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Mine is better than ours.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Applause waits on success.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Honesty is the best policy.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Industry need not wish.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
He that rises late must trot all day.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
He that's secure is not safe.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
