Learn to say "no." It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

More from Charles Haddon Spurgeon

• Mind your till, and till your mind.
• The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody. 1981
• At some point things got so bad it just became funny.