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

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.