To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.