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.