Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.