Be harsh with yourself at times.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.