“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.”

“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”

“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?”

“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.”

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

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

“Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.”

“There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.”

“If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”

“No nation was ever ruined by trade.”

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

“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.”

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.”

“Where liberty is, there is my country.”

“Life, like a dramatic piece, should not only be conducted with regularity, but it should finish handsomely.”

“When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.”

“This is sometimes of great use.”

“He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises, may at any time, and on any occasion, raise all the money his friends can spare.”

“God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees.”

“Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”

“Would you live with ease, do what you ought and not what you please.”

“When there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, and your country, be up by peep of day! Let not the sun look down and say, ‘Inglorious here he lies!’”

“When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off.”