“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“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.”

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

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

“Beware the hobby that eats.”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

“Honesty is the best policy.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Hunger is the best pickle.”

“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.”

“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”

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

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

“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.”

“A place for everything, everything in its place.”

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

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

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

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

“Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.”

“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”

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

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

“Well done is better than well said.”

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

“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”

“Applause waits on success.”

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

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

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

“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”