“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

The good and bad things are what form us as people. Change makes us grow.

I just like good souls, knowing them, being one, it’s kind of all that really matters.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your ‘rituals.’ I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It’s one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Quiet those whispers that tell you, you’re not good enough.