The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

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.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.