Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Never confuse motion with action.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.

They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Read much, but not many books.

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.

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

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

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

For the want of a nail, the shoe was loose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Well done is better than well said.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

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

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.