Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent law of laws.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.