A light purse is a heavy curse.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.