Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. – Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. – Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. There lies the well-spring of good: ever dig, and it will ever flow. – Marcus Aurelius
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield