First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.