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A good conscience is a continued Christmas.

I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. 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.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

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.".

Remember that credit is money.

Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. "Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire," as Poor Richard says.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.