I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Well done is better than well said.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.