You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
So little time and so little to do.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.