Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Nature never gives everything at once.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.