Life is consciousness.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.