A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Well done is better than well said.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.[Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]