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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
“Many a little makes a mickle; beware of little expense for a small leak will sink a great ship.”
Buy what thou has no need of and ere long thou shall sell thy necessaries.
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
The proud hate pride – in others.
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better languages than the unlearned; but still it is nonsense.
The noblest question in the world is What good may I do in it?
Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
Love your neighbor Yet don’t pull down your hedge.
What you would seem to be, be really.
Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.
If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading Or do things worth writing.
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
What signifies knowing the names if you know not the natures of things?
He that best understands the world, least likes it.
Vain-glory flowereth but beareth no fruit.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
The king’s cheese is half wasted in parings; but no matter, ‘tis made of the people’s milk.
O! ‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
A man in a passion rides a mad horse.
The poor have little, Beggars none; The rich too much, Enough not one.
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
A lie stands on one leg, Truth on two.
Mankind are very odd creatures: One half censure what they practice, The other half practice what they censure, The rest always say and do as they ought.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
He that won’t be counselled, can’t be helped.
Would you live with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
In the affairs of this world men are saved, not by faith, but by the want of it.
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, is to save all the money they can touch.
It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
‘Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have.
Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, discourse a clear Man.
No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.
A wolf eats sheep but now and then, Ten thousands are devour’d by men.
No Wood without Bark.
Make haste slowly.
Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.
He who buys had need have 100 Eyes, but one’s enough for him that sells the Stuff.
To God we owe fear and love; to our neighbours justice and charity; to our selves prudence and sobriety.
Good Sense is a Thing all need, few have, and none think they lack.
Tis a strange Forest that has no rotten Wood in it. And a strange Kindred that all are good in it.
Write Injuries in Dust, Benefits in Marble.
He that’s secure is not safe.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Franklin in a letter
The Art of getting Riches consists very much in THRIFT. All Men are not equally qualified for getting Money, but it is in the Power of everyone alike to practise this Virtue.
