Make the best use of both time and money. Add industry and frugal dealings if they pay very well and if you're free to it.

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

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.

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.