We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

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

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.