Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

He that’s secure is not safe.

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.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

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.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

Industry need not wish.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.