Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.