Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Power is the first good.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.