While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.