Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.