| Economy: |
| Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. |
- Edmund Burke |
| Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue. |
- Edmund Burke |
| Education |
| The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. |
- Aristotle |
| Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but difficult to enave. |
- Lord Brougham |
| Only the educated are free. A student may easily... be learning not to live but to reason. |
- Samuel Johnson |
| He that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master. |
- Ben Jonson |
| Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to the uneducated. "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead." |
- Diogenes Laertius |
| I never let my schooling interfere with my education. |
- Mark Twain |
| Egotism |
| He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. |
- Benjamin Franklin |
| It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he wishes to be esteemed. |
- Vauvenargues |
| To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. |
- Oscar Wilde |
| Enemies: |
| If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you. |
- Thomas Fuller |
| It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. |
- Mark Twain |