I just came across a slip of paper (source unknown) that lists 10 vial principles to live by, included in Thomas Jefferson's "Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life."
I thought they would be better published here, than lost again at the bottom of a desk drawer.
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
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