A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

You lose only the things you have

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.