"Bring your desires down to your present..." - Quote by Aristotle

“In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.”

“There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.”

“Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.”

“I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.”

“Never order food in excess of your body weight.”

“Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.”

“To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.”