If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self.

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it..

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "….

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

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not..

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them..

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance..

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..

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse..

A light purse is a heavy curse..

The Golden Age was never the present age..

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments..

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night..

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease..

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

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes..

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..

Take time for all things..

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves..

When you're finished changing, you're finished..

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great.