Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.
There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.
America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.