Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.