Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .
By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.