We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

For greed, all nature is too little.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.