The sluggard is a living insensible.

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.

When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.