Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

It is necessary to understand who you are

Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

We are made kind by being kind.

While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.