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?"

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.