Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. |
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. |
Goals help you overcome short-term problems. |
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. |
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. |
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio) |
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it. |