Men take more pains to mask than mend.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

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.

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.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.