Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

When men are employed they are best contented.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.