Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?