今天能做的事决不拖到明天。  

2.  Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.  

自己能做的事决不麻烦他人。  

3.  Never spend your money before you have it.  

没到手的钱决不花。（要量入为出，决不寅吃卯粮。）  

4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.  

不想要的东西，决不因为便宜而购买。  

5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.  

与饥饿、干渴与寒冷相比，骄傲带来的损失更大。  

6. Never repent of having eaten too little.  

决不后悔吃得太少。 

7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.  

乐意做的事没有哪一件是难做的。（只要乐意干，没有麻烦事。）  

8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.  

不要为没有发生的糟糕的事情而痛苦。（对于不可能发生的事情不要庸人自扰。）  

9. Take things always by their smooth handle.  

拿东西要抓不扎手的地方。  

10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.  

生气时，说话之前先数到十；如果非常生气，那就数到一百。  

11. All men are created equal.  

人人生而平等。 

12. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.  

我喜欢梦想未来而非追思既往的历史。