Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.