Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him familiarly and with confidence and love as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

In a world that is constantly changing there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore acquire contentment.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.