A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Encourage innocent amusement.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

There is nothing that strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.