If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.