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: A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. : A man is not completely born until he be dead. : An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. : A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind. : Applause waits on success. : Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. : Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. : Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. : Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. : By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. : Despair ruins some, presumption many. : Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. : Energy and persistence alter all things. : Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. : Genius without education is like silver in the mine. : God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. : Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason. : He that can have patience can have what he will. : He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. : He that is of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. : He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. : He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. : 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 am lord of myself, accountable to none. : Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. : If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. : If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. : If pion drives you, let reason hold the reins. : If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world? : If you want something done, ask a busy person. : If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. : Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. : In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. : I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. : It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. : Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. : Kill no more pigeons than you can eat. : Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. : Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon over-takes him. : Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. : Lost time is never found again. : Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. : Men take more pains to mask than to mend. : Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude. : Never take a wife till thou hast a house - and a fire - to put her in. : No nation was ever ruined by trade. : Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. : Observe all men, thyself most. : Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. : Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. : They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. : Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. : Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. : To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish. : Well done is better than well said. : We must indeed all hang together, or, most uredly, we shall all hang separately. : Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. : What is the use of a new-born child? : Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. : : Is that enough?

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