"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
Love
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"We should be thankful for the faults in our friends; they keep us from imitating them."
Friendship
"Opportunity is the great bawd."
Change
"Learning to read is to light a fire; every word spelled is fuel."
Education
"Humility makes great men twice honourable."
Kindness
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
Wisdom
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
Happiness
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Freedom
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
Time
"Paying attention is the beginning of devotion."
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
Change
"Employ your time well if you intend to get leisure."
Work
"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
Money
"Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."
Family
"The best security for old age: respect and affection from family and friends."
Family
"Nothing is certain but death and taxes."
Philosophy
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Peace
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Humor
"Tell me, do you want to live forever?"
Death
"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
Knowledge
"We ignore our talents and blame our difficulties on our circumstances."
Courage
"The poor have sometimes to be hard pressed to live at all."
Justice
"For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, for the want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for the want of a horse the rider was lost."
Wisdom
"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it."
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
Leadership
"Our science is relative; that of God is absolute."
Science
"Faith sees by the ears."
Faith
"Humanity is a species that doesn't do well when it's physically comfortable."
Nature
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
Health
