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"At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment."

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."

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"At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment."

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."

"Beauty and folly are old companions."

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"Honesty is the best policy."

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

"Hunger is the best pickle."

"Fatigue is the best pillow."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

"The first mistake in public business is the going into it."

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."

"I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

"To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

"Beware the hobby that eats."

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."

"God helps those who help themselves."

"God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man."

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."

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

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."

"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."

"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."

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

"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed."

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

"Half a truth is often a great lie."

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."

"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."

"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

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

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."