Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Christianity is part of the laws of England.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.

A pebble thrown in a poolmay ripple from end to end, but tossed into the sea, it is swallowed by enormity.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

Do not call up any that you can not put down.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

The best of times is now.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good