If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

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.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Lying rides upon debt's back.