A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.