Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Edward GibbonI have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.
Edward Gibbon