Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Success has ruined many a man.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.