First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

We are what we repeatedly do.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.