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.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Don't cry over spilled milk

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

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

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .