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

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

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.

Silence is safer than speech.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.