Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.