 Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities. |
| Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. |
| 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. |
| In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. |
| A penny saved is a penny earned. |
| Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. |
| The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. |
| Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A small leak can sink a great ship. |
| Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. |
| Well done is better than well said. |
| The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. |
| Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. |
| A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. |
| 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. |
| He that won't be counseled can't be helped. |
| To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. |
| Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. |
