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

The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them