Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

Love well, whip well.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

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

A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian.

Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.

When in doubt, don't.

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.