The sleeping fox catches no poultry..

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright..

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend..

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter..

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes..

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day..

Diligence is the mother of good luck..

What can laws do without morals?.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each….

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

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith..

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man….

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

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue..

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children w….

Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith..

Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none..

Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes..

An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught..

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most….

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow..