Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.