A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality
Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.