Great Throughts Treasury

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."

"He that makes excuses is seldom good for anything else."

"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."

"He that's secure is not safe."

"He who multiplies riches multiplies cares."

"He's a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."

"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."

"I develop the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any other that give the air of positiveness to an opinion, but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so: It appear to me or should not think it, so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so, or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit I believe has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinion and persuade men into measures that I have been, time to time, engaged in promoting."

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."

"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it?"

"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's-stone."

"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."

"Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?"

"It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too sever, seldom executed."

"Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a penny, when all thy expenses are enumerated and paid: then shalt thou reach the point of happiness and independence shall by thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds."

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

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

"Little strokes fell great oaks."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter"

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it."

"May we never see another war! For in my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace."

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.""

"Necessity has no law."

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

"Never put off till to-morrow that which you can do to-day."

"None preaches better than the ant, and she say nothing."

"Of all our infirmities, vanity is the dearest to us; a man will starve his other vices to keep it alive."

"One day is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. What I am to be, I am now becoming."

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

"Our necessities never equal our wants."

"Pain wastes the body, pleasures the understanding."

"Pity and forbearance should characterize all acts of justice."

"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."

"Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."

"Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

"Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can'st."

"Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."

"Public opinion cannot do for virtue what it does for vice. It is the essence of virtue to look above opinion. Vice is consistent with, and very often strengthened by, entire subservience to it."

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."

"Remember, that time is money... Remember that credit is money... In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do. With them, everything."

"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

"Scraps from the table of wisdom, that will if well digested yield strong nourishment to thy mind."

"Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought as easier service and therefore more generally chosen."