Find a path or make one.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.