The following is given as one of the secrets to longevity: Worry less, work more; ride less, walk more; drink less, breathe more; eat less, chew more; preach less, practice more.

From The Almanack of 1908

When a man’s business does not fit him, ‘tis as often like a shoe – if it too big for the foot, it will trip him, if too small, it will chafe him.

Reprinted from The Almanack of 1958

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

A hundred friends are not too many. One enemy is too much.

The man with an exalted opinion of himself is a very poor judge of human nature.

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.

William Shakespeare

One may go wrong in many different directions, but right in only one.

The rung of the ladder was never meant to be rested upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other one higher.

Thomas Huxley

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors

Try to practice what you already know; and in doing so, you will in good time discover the hidden things which you inquire about.

Rembrandt

Knowledge is power

Lend money to an enemy and you thou’lt gain him; to a friend and you thou’lt lose him.

Benjamin Franklin

Never find your delight in another’s misfortune.

Publilius Syrus

A BUSINESS MAN’S IDEALS

To be honest, making money honestly or not at all.

To be fair, refusing to injure a competitor.

To be just, remembering that all must live.

To be kind, regarding employees as something more then an investment.

To be charitable, giving liberally for the upraising of humanity.

To be healthy, exercising as a duty.

To be sociable, have a side to friends not known to all.

To be lovable, being more to wife and family than a means of support.

To be sympathetic, fearing littleness of soul more than littleness of fortune.

To be broad, accumulating resources higher than material; above all, be true to one’s self, condoning nothing which is to be condemned in others.

From The Almanack of 1908

Wherever public spirit prevails, liberty is secure

Noah Webster

Life is just a bowl of pits

Rodney Dangerfield

Let us to endeavor so to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one’s own confusions.

Cornelia Otis Skinner