| Quotes |
Topic |
| Economy | Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. |
| Economy | Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. |
| Economy | Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee. |
| Education | If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. |
| Enemies | You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours. |
| Enemies | Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. |
| Enemy | There is no little enemy. |
| Energy | Energy and persistence alter all things. |
| Excuses | He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. |
| Eye | The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. |
| Family | 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. |
| Fatigue | Fatigue is the best pillow. |
| Fault | A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. |
| Fools | The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. |
| Forbidden | Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful. |
| Fortune | Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. |
| Fortune | He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. |
| Genius | Genius without education is like silver in the mine. |
| Glutton | In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. |
| Glutton | One should eat to live, not live to eat. |
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