You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
Difficulty shows what men are.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.