Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

• time management
• leisure

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.

• moderation
• power
• violence

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

• adversity

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

• discipline

Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

• direction
• goals

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

• wealth
• contentment

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

• money
• contentment
• greed

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

• time management

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

• fun
• leisure

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

• self improvement

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?"

• simplicity
• thrift

Love of bustle is not industry.

• time management

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

• charity
• generosity