Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
— Benjamin Franklin
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Lost time is never found again.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Hunger is the best pickle.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
