Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.