Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result read more

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to read more

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key read more

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.