Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.