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

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

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest.

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

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.