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| Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it. | 1 |
| Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up. | 2 |
| Have a spécialité, a work in which you are at home. | 3 |
| If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous. | 4 |
| If you have a special weakness, do not expose it by attempting to do things which will bring it out. | 5 |
| In all matters prefer the less evil to the greater, and solace yourself under any ill with the reflection that it might be worse. | 6 |
| It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but only empties to-day of its strength. | 7 |
| It is a great pity when the man who should be the head figure is a mere figure-head. | 8 |
| It is always vitally important to ourselves to be scrupulously true. | 9 |
| It is far easier to make a great rush than to plod steadily on through a long life. | 10 |
| It is harder to weave than to gather wool. | 11 |
| It is not well to make great changes in old age. | 12 |
| Judgment must sway the feelings and keep them in their right place, or harm will be done where good was intended. | 13 |
| Judicious persons will think all the less of us because of the ill-judged praises of our silly friends. | 14 |
| Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and anger and complaining may be avoided. | 15 |
| Lazarus did not go to Abraham’s bosom because he was poor, or every sluggard would go there easily. | 16 |
| Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. | 17 |
| Leave all piggies’ ears alone rather than seize upon the wrong one. | 18 |
| Let the matter be good, and let the manner befit it. | 19 |
| Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, and a scorpion to himself. | 20 |
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| Many a father might say,… “I put in gold into the furnace, and there came out this calf.” | 21 |
| Men like advising the women better than doing right themselves. | 22 |
| Men who earn nothing but compliments are not likely to be very diligent in so unprofitable a service. | 23 |
| Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances. | 24 |
| Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. | 25 |
| Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper. | 26 |
| None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. | 27 |
| None is so wretched as the poor man who maintains the semblance of wealth. | 28 |
| Nowadays compromise and indifference rule supreme, and instead of solid grit we have putty or wax. | 29 |
| Persons who are very plausible and excessively polite have generally some design upon you, as also religionists who call you “dear” the first time they see you. | 30 |
| Revenge of a wrong only makes another wrong. | 31 |
| Said will be a little ahead, but Done should follow at his heel. | 32 |
| Say nothing, and none can criticise thee. | 33 |
| Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. | 34 |
| The furiously wicked have but a short career. Bad for them, but good for the universe. | 35 |
| The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. | 36 |
| The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon. | 37 |
| The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. | 38 |
| The wishing-gate opens into nothing. | 39 |
| The worst of many is that their goodness is distributed rather than concentrated. They are like a sheet of water instead of being like a running stream, which can be used to turn a wheel. | 40 |
| There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from want of work. | 41 |
| There’s a medium in thoughtfulness and gaiety: find it out and keep to it. | 42 |
| Things must turn when they can go no farther. | 43 |
| Trust in that man’s promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. | 44 |
| We are all, at times, unconscious prophets. | 45 |
| When any one ceases to care for his home, it is one of the worst possible signs of moral sickness. | 46 |
| When people laugh at their own jokes, their wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth. | 47 |
| When the sheep is too meek, all the lambs suck it. | 48 |
| When you do not know what to do, it is a clear indication that you are to do nothing. | 49 |
| When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. | 50 |
| Yield to God’s word and will, and you will escape many a calamity. | 51 |
| Yon cannot put a quartern loaf into a child’s head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk. | 52 |
| “You must be in the fashion,” is the utterance of weak-headed mortals. | 53 |
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