Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Eat what you like, but dress for other people.
An education is the investment with the greatest returns.
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.