Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.