A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothi ...

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new t ...