Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.
Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
Do what you will, only do something.
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.