Aphorisms

A successful man is simply one who doesn’t make a fool of himself in the same way more than two or three times running.

The people who never have any time do the least.

He has written eight volumes. He would surely have done better to plant eight trees or beget eight children.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Well done is better than well said.