Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.