Poverty is the mother of crime.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.