No man is free who is not master of himself.
To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.
When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.
It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.