Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Love of action is not industry.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium