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1. Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
2. Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
3. The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
4. The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
5. An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
6. Our necessities never equal our wants.
7. He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.
8. Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
9. 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.
10. Beauty and folly are old companions.
11. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
12. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
13. Honesty is the best policy.
14. Lost time is never found again.
15. It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
16. Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
17. A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
18. There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
19. He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
20. There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means — either may do — the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.