Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.