Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. |
Industry need not wish. |
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. |
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. |
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. |
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. |
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. |
Creditors have better memories than debtors. |
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. |
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. |
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. |
Honesty is the best policy. |
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Topics: Marriage |
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. |
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. |
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. |
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. |
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. |
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. |
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. |