What good shall I do this day?

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.