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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Drive your business, let not you're business drive you.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.