The Island of Logic

• An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
• Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain-and most fools do.
• Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him; to a friend and thou will lose him.
• Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
• Creditors have better memories than debtors.
• God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
• To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
• Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
• If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
• He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
• God helps them that help themselves.
• Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
• He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
• They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
• To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
• We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

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