“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”

“Display is as false as it is costly.”

“Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.”

“And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.”

“Some falls the means are happier to rise.”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”

“A man often pays dear for a small frugality.”

“Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.”

“I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.”

“Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.”

“Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.”

“Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?”