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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

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

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

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

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

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