"A penny saved is a penny earned."

"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."

"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,"

"Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments."

"The talent is in the choices."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."

"Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant."

"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."