When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.