Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Lost time is never found again.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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

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

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

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

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

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

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.

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

Beauty and folly are old companions.

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

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

God helps those who help themselves.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'

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

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

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

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

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

Time is money.

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

You may delay, but time will not.

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

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

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

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Honesty is the best policy.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Hunger is the best pickle.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

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

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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

Well done is better than well said.

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

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

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

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.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

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

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

When in doubt, don't.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.

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