A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.