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

Praise thyself never.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

Consider an enemy may become a friend.