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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

When in doubt, don't.

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.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Never confuse motion with action.

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

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Well done is better than well said.

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

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

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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

A place for everything, everything in its place.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Time is money.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Lost time is never found again.

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Hunger is the best pickle.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

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