You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.