It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.