Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

He that's secure is not safe.

Applause waits on success.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

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

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

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.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Lost time is never found again.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Remember that credit is money.

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

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

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.

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

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

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.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

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

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.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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

Beware the hobby that eats.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

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

Honesty is the best policy.

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

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

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

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

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.