He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinki….

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass..

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error..

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees..

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on….

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church..

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest..

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret t….

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions..

Great hopes make everything great possible.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that..

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others..

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and th….

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the Wor….

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies..

A penny saved is a penny earned..

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop..

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield..

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty.

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

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanks….