He is most powerful who governs himself.

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

He worships God who knows him.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

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.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.