The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .