Echoes

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do. Don't think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That's a foolish notion held by people who have no imagination. You will be able to accomplish more. You get two days in one — well, at least one and a half, I'm sure.

As long as a person exercises, exerts himself greatly, does not eat to the point of being overly full, and keeps his bowels soft, illness will not come upon him and his strength will increase.

Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life. Yet even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. But this conviction must be firmly grasped and not merely adopted in words, if we wish to draw any strength from what we know.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words: industry and frugality — that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them.

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

I found that a strict and regular life is the true way to conquer nature, and that the proverb which says that nature is so powerful is in part false.