Industry need not wish.

After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.