A Good Example Is The Best Sermon.

Happiness Depends More On The Inward Disposition Of Mind Than On Outward Circumstances.

Annual Giving Is The Custom Of Making A Gift-a-year To An Institution In Which One Has Faith.

This Gave Me Occasion To Observe, That When Men Are Employ'd They Are Best Contented. For On The Days They Work'd They Were Good-natur'd And Chearful; And With The Consciousness Of Having Done A Good Days Work They Spent The Evenings Jollily; But On The Idle Days They Were Mutinous And Quarrelsome, Finding Fault With Their Pork, The Bread, And In Continual Ill-humour. (autobiography, 1771)

Lost Time Is Never Found Again, And What We Call Time Enough, Always Proves Little Enough.

Those Who Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares Usually End Up Plowing For Those Who Kept Their Swords.