Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.

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

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.

All would live long, but none would be old.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

He that’s content, has enough; he that complains, has too much.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

To be proud of virtue is to poison yourself with the antidote.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

If you would be loved, love and be loveable.

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Search others for their virtues, yourself for your vices.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Speak little, do much.

No one cares what you know until they know that you care!

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

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain, the lazy one will never.

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands.

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

Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.

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

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought of as an easier service and therefore, more generally chosen.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.

I’d rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Don’t cry over spilled milk.

Haste makes waste.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Whatever you become, be good at it.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

All mankind is divided into three classes—those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Be civil to all, sociable to many; familiar with few, friend to one and enemy to none.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Never confuse motion with action.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

It isn’t what you know that counts, it’s what you think of in time.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

There will be enough sleeping in the grave.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind, than on outward circumstances.

If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Trouble knocked at the door, but hearing laughter, hurried away.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

When you are finished changing, you’re finished.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.

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.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Lost time is never found again.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

To lengthen your life, lessen your meals.

There cannot be good living where there is no good drinking.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Great modesty often hides great merit.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

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

There are three things extremely hard—steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Eat to live, don’t live to eat.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontent makes rich men poor.

There are two ways to increase your wealth—increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

There are three faithful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present, but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence, we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

There are no gains without pains.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas

The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

To be humble to superiors is a duty; to equals, courtesy, to inferiors, nobleness.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the lack of it.

But in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

God grants that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say, ‘This is my country!

The most secure place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Only virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Look round the habitable world—how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue!

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

Games lubricate the body and mind.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do.

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

That which hurts, also instructs.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind’s misery

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Critics are our friends. They show us our faults.

A good example is the best sermon.

Words may show a man’s wit; actions, his meaning.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart

Write your injuries in dust; your benefits, in marble.

Write to please yourself. When you write to please others, you end up pleasing no one.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself.

Reading makes a full man; meditation, a profound man; discourse, a clear man.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read

All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

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

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

Never ruin an apology with an excuse

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong

Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.

Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I learn.

You may delay, but time will not

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

How many observe Christ’s birthday? How few His precepts!

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

In wine, there is wisdom. In beer, there is freedom. In water, there is bacteria.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Well done is better than well said.