Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
You must look into people as well as at them.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
