Echoes

God is in the details.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

These circumstances, trivial as they may seem, have their importance; since without them we could never have come to any certainty.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.

Lost Time is never found again.

...if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.