“Would you live with ease,Do what you ought, and not what you please.”

“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.”

“1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you...”

“Write to Please Yourself.When You write to Please OthersYou end up Pleasing No one.”

“Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.”

“No one cares what you know until they know that you care!”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”