A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

No gains without pains.