Employ yourself usefully. Be like a trustee holding on trust on behalf of God for the purpose which He likes and approves.

Let there be many windows to your soul that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits it is part of my own being.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Cherish that which is within you and shut off that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.

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