The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.