We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

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

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

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

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.