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.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.