Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
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.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?