Life is a kind of chess..

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest..

you can do anything you set your mind to.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things..

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both..

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live j….

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

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear..

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded….

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; ….

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients..

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively..

La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla..

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else..

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

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheati….

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen..

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately..

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above….

Never contradict anybody..