Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Lost time is never found again.

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.