I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

When in doubt, don’t.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.