If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Eat to live, not live to eat.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.