Some advice from Thomas Jefferson

This list came to my attention from the fabulous book Lists of Note.  It was compiled by Thomas Jefferson as advice for a young man.  He called it A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life.  It may have been written in 1825 but it strikes me as pretty apposite to today!

1.    Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
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 have never happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10.   When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.