A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise