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

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.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Truth allows no choice.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Once you were small, but you grew. How everything even love, starts from small.

Growth often looks like out growing old patterns and good people.

Exit gracefully. Heal and grow. Don’t look back.

You grow stronger after heartbreak like the pouring rain nourishes trees, flowers, the earth, instead of making them drown. Like painful tears make your heart stronger after every drop.