Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.