Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. - Samuel Johnson

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.