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

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Only the educated are free.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

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

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.