An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.