A Man of Success or Value

 “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

"The Last Time"

 "How frequently the last time comes and we do not know."

— John Walter

Buy What You Don't Need and...

 "Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Those who do not read..."

 "Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot."

— Chinese Proverb

Strength Versus Perseverance

 "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."

― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Learn While Young

 "Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later."

— Dana Stewart Scott

Inspiration and Action

 "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.  Action always generates inspiration.  Inspiration seldom generates action."

— Frank Tibolt

Discovery and Sight

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

— Francis Bacon

Flattery and Balance

 "A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence."

— Augustus William Hare

Truth Suffering Because of its Defenders

 "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers."

— William Penn

Philosophy versus Evil

"Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it."

— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Acquisition by Degrees

 "Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches.  By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled."

— Hitopadesa

"Simplicity and Straightforwardness"

 "Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straightforwardness are."

— Henry Alford