“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

“Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.”

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”

“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”

“Only the educated are free.”

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.”

“Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.”